PROGRAM

NightBirds
in the garden at the end of time

[Atmosphere No. 1]

NightBirds is an assemblage of revolutionary 20th–century composer Olivier Messiaen’s work. Through music and dance, NightBirds invites the audience to bear witness to a ritual of personal grief and its relationship to the precarity of the natural world. It is comprised of several pieces by Messiaen including:

La mort du nombre
“L’alouette lulu,” 3rd Livre No. VI, Catalogues d’oiseaux 
Poèmes pour mi
“La chouette hulotte,” 3rd Livre, No. V: Catalogues d’oiseaux 
“Le loriot” 1st Livre, No. II: Catalogues d’oiseaux 
“Louange à l’immortalité de Jésus,” No. VIII, Quatuor pour la fin du temps

FEATURING:
in order of appearance

Matthew Odell, Piano
Emilie-Anne Gendron, Violin

LES OISEAUX (THE BIRDS): 

Anna Hull
Sierra Hendrix
A’lexus Crooms
Jesse Barnett
Michael Parmelee

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James Danner, Tenor
with
Bridget Haile, Soprano as “Elle”

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Choreography by Amanda Hameline
in collaboration with dancers

Concept + Direction by James Danner

Music Direction by Matthew Odell

Performance Showing – 1.26.23 – David Rockefeller Center for the Arts